Untitled - February 06, 2003

In homage to: Ella Wheeler Wilcox' Lifters and Leaners

Today we are lifted,
but yesterday we leaned,
and betwixt now and tomorrow,
one tilt in between.

In lifting
we fell,
in leaning,
we rose,
to look for life
beyond the narrows.

As we wobble between worlds,
fraught with danger
and endless fright,
our dreams are left in peril
of ending before the flight.